In the end, Candy has helped to keep this issue alive for a few more days. Probably through the next debate since it is foreign affairs. So the news the next few days will be split between “Obama won”. and who was right on Libya. So exactly not what Obama wanted.
Just like Biden’s over the top mannerism, muted whatever points he may have scored. So will the Libya/Crowly/Obama mess up.
Immediate debate aftermath is a draw or small Obama win. But in the days to come, it will play against Obama. He screwed up and lied on too many things. And his comment about “some jobs are never coming back to the US” in the China discussion, was a big mistake. That will be all over the air the next few days. Basically it shows he is out of ideas.
Mitt is still chugging along. 3 weeks from now, Obama will have conceded and Mitt will be the president elect. I feel great.
The media tried to throw Obama a win on classic debate scoring, but this wasn’t a classical debate. It was a Town Hall, with a biased moderator, who clearly messed up.
Having been a volunteer parent judge in high school debates, it is expected that both sides will debate well. However, in the end, there can only be one winner. (Well, there is an exception, but it isn’t important here.) To me, Romney clearly won on points. He successfully attacked Obama’s record for the past four years, and successfully offered his own plan to solve things. Obama may have been more alert and aggressive, but he did not win the debate. He lost again.
When I heard the comment about some jobs will never come back, as I recall it was McCain that got totally skewered in the last election for saying something similar.
Yes, I was hoping Romney would come back with: "I won't accept that as a premise. Given a level playing field, we can compete with anyone. America has its people, its freedom, fabulous resources if allowed to tap them, and even many geographic advantages. We can succeed economically against anyone, if we just take off the chains that are dragging us down. I refuse to give up on any jobs, and I will fight every day for good jobs for everyone who wants one."
The point should also be made that once one can create high demand for workers, instead of high demand for work, the businesses needing workers will find ways to accomplish worker training, rather than have the Gov't try to guess what will be needed.